"Vitamins" is a short story by American author Raymond Carver.
It was originally published in the Spring 1981 edition of Granta magazine and later in 1983, in the short story collection Cathedral.
His wife Patti starts selling vitamins because she wants a job for her self-respect.
The vitamin business was not doing as well as before so Patti holds a party to cheer all her employees up.
The narrator and Patti move Sheila's sleeping body out onto the porch and they forget about her.
A couple of days after the party the narrator invites Donna to a bar called the Off-Broadway for a drink.
Benny walks over with his friend Nelson, a veteran of Vietnam who has just arrived home.
Nelson then offers Donna a couple hundred dollars to 'French' him (perform oral sex).
The narrator is seen to be drinking alcohol throughout the story and the vitamins may represent the negative effects played out in the life of his wife, Patti.